Vacation's over
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Back from a well deserved vacation. Lots of stuff to do so vacation info and pics will have to wait for a few days. Hi again everyone.
Andy Fragen
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Feces finale
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Well, my patient coded this morning. She didn’t make it. I didn’t expect her to. I spent about half an hour speaking with her son a couple of days ago trying to tell him about her condition and trying to get a DNR order. He wasn’t ready. I can’t blame him. Less guilt and she…
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Update on shit
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Patient took a southward turn. Requiring more ventilator support and rising WBCs. Doesn’t look good. Damn don’t these people know that we (doctors) can only do so much and then their own systems need to heal their bodies. Sometimes I wish there were more to do but I realize that I can only do so…
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More shit
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Well, one of the patients with a rectal perforation did very well and the other was doing very poorly. There was evidence of additional bowel leakage and I took her back to the OR. It’s always hardest to take your own patients back to the OR. Anyway, everything was plastered together. The bowels looked like…
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Shit
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What a week. I’ve had to bail 2 people out belly full of shit — literally. Complications of other procedures. Not fun, and unfortunately for the patients not much fun for them either. Both with temporary colostomies. At least they can be reversed. It does mess up the day though. Especially when trying to recover…
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It's been a hellish week on call.
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It’s been a hellish week on call. I’ve been up to about 2AM every night. It’s getting a bit monotonous. Fortunately the week is coming to a close. Also fortunately Kathy and the kids are gone so they don’t get disturbed by my coming home at 0 dark thirty. Bad news is that it’ll be…